The Ride Home with Kathy Emmons
The Ride Home with Kathy Emmons is your daily companion for thoughtful conversation, trusted information, and encouragement rooted in a Christian worldview. Each episode brings together engaging interviews, timely discussions, and practical insights that help you navigate the issues shaping your life, your family, your faith, and your community.
Hosted by Kathy Emmons of 101.5 WORD-FM, the program features conversations with authors, pastors, ministry leaders, newsmakers, and local voices from across the Pittsburgh metro area. From current events and culture to faith, family, and everyday life, Kathy offers a gracious, hope-filled perspective that informs, inspires, and points listeners toward Christ.
Whether you're catching up on a conversation you missed or listening for the first time, The Ride Home with Kathy Emmons invites you to end your day encouraged, challenged, and equipped to live out your faith in today's world.
The Ride Home with Kathy Emmons is a production of Salem Media Group, Pittsburgh.
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About Kathy Emmons
KATHY EMMONS
Since the day her parents met at the H.J. Heinz ketchup factory, Pittsburgh has been the locus of all things for Kathy Emmons.
Trained as a Steelers, Penguins and Pirates fan from babyhood, she grew up in the city, lived within the banks of all three rivers as a Pitt broadcasting student, then diverted to the recruiting field at the University after graduation.
Responding to a pang for the artistic life, Kathy studied Interior Design at Pittsburgh’s Art Institute, left academics behind, and launched into the lavish living rooms of city dwellers. After years of custom draperies, fabric swatches, and imported area rugs, she traded it all in for daughters Anna and Katie Rose, who occupied her energies in a full-time way for a decade.
In 2007, the circumnavigation ended with her return to broadcasting as The Ride Home was cast onto the Pittsburgh airwaves at 101.5 WORD-FM. Garnering friends and fans from across the country but most especially from the city she loves, Kathy talks daily from 4-6 pm on any subject at all, but always with faith as its core.
Married to Eric for 34 years and serving as Worship Leader in one of Pittsburgh’s historic churches, Kathy can be found in the off-hours creeping the corners of local consignment shops and searching for that One Great Find in used book stores near and far.
